Sunday, December 4, 2011

The History Of The Mythic Photographers

The Creation

It all started with another group, one of the largest screenshot groups on bungie- Epic Pic. Here, the council basically governed the group when the administrators were not active. Very often the admins were not taking care of business, so the council grew accustomed to running the group. Eventually, I unlocked our chance at making bungie favorites by obtaining the application from urk, and the council was tasked with organizing the submissions. And this is what we did for two long months.
Now this is where conflicts started to heat up. Since the Head of Council (me) at the time unlocked the application, all rights to changing submissions for bungie favorites was reserved for the council. All throughout the selection process, the leader, Colbyrules, and his favored admin, Joshalot, never assisted. So as we were about ready to turn it in for approval by urk, we decided to change some of the screenshot submissions, includingcolby's entry. We did this to provide higher quality material to improve our chances of obtaining an approval. At first everything was well...
But colby eventually found out about the changes. He felt that since he created the group, all of the members should listen to him without question, basically following the idea of dictatorship. Of course the council, which had been running the group for a while now, disagreed. In our eyes, Josh and him were poor leaders, and without our advice they would ruin the group. This conflict eventually led to a huge argument, which led to colby's decision to erase the council's status.
Before this conflict broke out, I was promoted to an admin (rokker taking my place in the council as Head of Council) . As admin, camo and i decided to take action against colby and josh. We knew we had support from the group, so as new leaders we would be accepted, but we fell short of our goal. Josh caught us on one of his back-up accounts before we could demote it, and we were demoted from admin to a regular member. This action basically marked the end of our activity in Epic Pic.
Then I realized, instead of leaving Epic Pic behind me, why don't I take it with me? This is when I suggested the idea of making a new group, and recruiting everyone from Epic Pic to it, so we can have control and avoid bad leadership. So my fellow conspirators camo, spade and rokker decided to make the group (all credit is given to rokker for the name). From here, our other two co-conspirators dom and demonic became our head moderators. From here you guys get the idea, we started it off right. A relaxed, but fair, set of rules, creative competitions, enormous enthusiasm, and of course the most important attribute- great members, became the foundation if the group. After all, I got more than Epic Pic, I got something much better- Mythic Photographers !

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